Stats about How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education – Infographic

Here, we sort through the clutter and pull out some of our favorite facts and figures:

Online education is a $34 billion industry.

At 250,000 students, the Open University, which teaches a majority of its courses online, is the largest university in the United Kingdom. It’s twice the size of the University of London.

The for-profit University of Phoenix is now the largest university in the United States, enrolling more than 500,000 students. That’s about 13 times larger than the University of Arizona.

There are currently more than three million online-only students in the United States. That’s more than the total number of college students in France.

Use of online education has been growing at an astronomical rate, and it isn’t stopping. Seventy-five percent of public higher learning institutions have online learning in their long-term plans. By 2019, it is estimated that 50 percent of all classes taught will be delivered online, and many of these will be available for free.